mars rover

• Question:-Mars Rover is still running and we drive to work using a century old combustion engine, WHY?
  Given, the Mars Rover is still running on solar panels, giving off 0 emissions, a technological marvel and is 36 million miles away. The primary form of transportation on earth is the century old combustion engine, spewing off emissions. Regardless as to whether the earth or humanity will succumb to the effects of our dirty habits, why do we allow this to happen?
  Did you know that we get enough energy from the sun in about 2 hours to provide all of the worlds energy needs?
  The point is, we have the technology, Mars Rover, Nuclear powered subs, Cern, but we cruise around in vehicles with combustion engines.
  
  Answer:-I brought up the same question at work, the rover has been going for a long time and I'm not sure but I don't think there are any gas stations on mars!
  People need to stop using gas and force a change, as long as the oil companies make billions per quarter they will continue to pay everyone off so they can continue to use gas.
  
  Check out the movie, who killed the electric car. it's an eye opening experience.
• Question:-Why is Mars rover Opprotunity making fast progress toward a destination of its own?
  Why is it that mars rover spirit has reached a safe sit for the martian winter, while its twin, opportunity, is making fast progress toward a destination of is own?
  
  Answer:-Spirit has been mired in a sand trap for six months and may be stuck for good:
  
  http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2009/11/nasa-unveils-plan-to-free-sandtrapped-mars-rover.html
  
  Opportunity is continuing it's two-year drive to Endeavour crater.
• Question:-Can you download the Mars Rover pictures made public in bulk?
  Is there any place that you can download all the mars land rover pictures that were made public in bulk? Perhaps a torrent or otherwise from the Nasa archives?
  Thanks!
  
  Answer:-You could wait for a random response from some millions of users who may or may not know or even see your question or you could ask the webmaster for the NASA site. Which one do you think is going to get you the best and quickest answer?
• Question:-How do we recieve a signals from a rover on Mars?
  I assume the Mars rover has a small antenna with a low power transmitter. If this is the case how does that signal get reicieved all the way on earth? Is there some sort of satellite relay system? It seems to me that it would be difficult to discern the signal from all the random noise. Maybe some sort of special encoding is used on the signal. I don't know....does anyone know the answer?
  
  Answer:-As far as i know both Rovers do only have a UHF transmitter making them incapable sending something directly to earth.
  
  Instead they relay(ed) data through Mars Odyssey, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Express and possibly the new Reconaissance Orbiter.
  
  if Transmitter Power is limited it needs large antennas to even receive signals from the satellites around mars, due to the fact that it could be on the other side of the sun, from time to time.
  Distance and lack of power causing effects of course. So therefore they switch to lower transmission speeds, and use algorithms to be able to reconstruct lost bits in the stream.
  
  This was all considered on planning, so it was decided not to have the rovers transmit directly.
  Instead having redundant orbiters to relay which have no problems with sand on their solar-panels.
• Question:-mars rover?
  pictures
  
  Answer:-Maybe this is what you need:
  
  http://www.picsearch.com/search.cgi?q=mars+rover
  
  or
  
  http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLR,GGLR:2006-05,GGLR:en&q=mars+rover
  
  or
  
  http://search.lycos.com/default.asp?tab=multi&loc=searchbox&query=mars+rover&cat=images&agree=1
• Question:-When will be the mars rover sent to the mars?
  Do we know exact date of rover to mars?
  Edward, if there are rovers on the mars' surface, then why are there no videos of good quality of mars inside the atmosphere? I really wish to see how mars looks inside with a good quality video which is colored, not black and white...
  
  Answer:-Mars already has two rovers, "Spirit" and "Opportunity". They have been operating on Mars' surface for about seven years, although Spirit may have recently gotten stuck in a cold location and poorly exposed to the Sun, and, subsequently, didn't get enough solar power to survive the last Martian winter.
  
  The next Mars rover, named "Curiosity", is scheduled for launch November 25, 2011.
• Question:-Will it be a lot more expensive (than the price of the mars rover) for NASA to send a rover?
  (like the mars rover)
  to Planet Jupiter's moon Europa to do some preliminary testing for possible life on Europa?
  
  Answer:-Yes, a Jovian Rover would have to be much tougher due to Jupiter's huge gravity and turbulent atmosphere. It would have to avoid being sucked into its atmosphere, on approach to Europa and would require lots of fuel. Then there is the electronic magnetic interpherence as most radioactive particles are drawn toward toward it so any electronic equipment would have to be well shielded.
• Question:-How did the Mars Rover get to Mars?
  Im just curious on how the Mars Rover got to Mars after it left Earth and how it knew which direction to go exactly for the 7 month period it was in space, cause outer space is a big place. Lol
  And how did it get to Mars since there is no control in space and you cant really move anywhere since theres no gravity, did it just float to Mars or was it powered by a rocket the entire time?
  
  Answer:-
• Question:-The Mars rover was deployed on the surface of Mars in July 1997.?
  The Mars rover was deployed on the surface of Mars in July 1997. At one point during its subsequent mission, radio signals took about 18 min to travel from Earth to the rover. How far was Mars from the from Earth at that time?
  
  Answer:-18 light minutes. (Just enter it into google for the conversion of units you want. I'll give you a hint, it's more than 300million KM (16 light minutes would be that... double the distance to the Sun).
• Question:-How was the mars rover balloon lander thing able to right itself after it deflates?
  i watched nasa sim of it and after the balloons deflate the rover comes out and voild --its right side up.
  
  ??
  sposed to say --"voila!"
  injanier --i didnt see the uprighting part in wiki --thanks!
  
  Answer:-The capsule that held the rover was a tetrahedron - four triangular sides, one of which was the base. A sensor on the lander figured out which face was down. If it wasn't the base, it opened the side that was facing down, which would flip the lander onto its base. Then the other sides open up and the rover can roll out.

garmin nuvi 1450

• Question:-My Garmin Nuvi 1450 GPS has signal problems? What do I do?
  I just bought a Garmin Nuvi 1450 GPS and it has some problems detecting the signal.
  I'm in my car and it cannot detect my locations after I hit Tools > Where am I?
  I live in Northern Toronto, however, it only shows the location to be some random place on King Street in downtown Toronto. Can anyone help me troubleshoot/give help if you've had the same problem? 10pts up on the line.
  
  Answer:-Charge the unit completely, power it up and let it sit with a clear view of the sky for at least 15 minutes. This should allow it to get a solid fix on your location. When you go back it should have a good signal and has located where it is exactly, set this as your home location.
  
  When using it in the car or traveling make sure it has a clear view of the sky. I typically will power mine up prior to leaving to allow it time to set its coordinates.
• Question:-Adding Chinese voice to my Garmin nuvi 1450?
  I tested the nuvi 1450 demo and it had Mandarin Chinese voice on it, but after buying the 1450 for myself it doesn't have it. Any way I can add the Chinese voice or where can I get it?
  
  Answer:-Yes, you can add the Mandarin Chinese voice to your nuvi 1450. Search online for "Garmin Webupdater" which is Garmin's desktop tool for nuvi updates. Download and run the updater, then when it's finished it will say "Check for additional updates such as voices?" Select 'Yes' or 'Next' and a list of languages will show up. Select Mandarin Chinese from this list and it will install!
  
  Also, if you are looking for funny or celebrity Garmin voices, check out NavTones - they are the best.
• Question:-can i find a parked car with the garmin nuvi 1450 lmt?
  
  
  Answer:-Only if you saved the location of the car on the Nuvi & then took the Nuvi with you when you left the car. GPS map units receive signals from the GPS satellite array, they don't transmit.
• Question:-Garmin Nuvi 1450 blank screen?
  I just got my GPS for Christmas. After I put my route in, the map appears and it works fine until I hit a particular highway. The screen goes black, the device restarts, then it resumes my trip. However, the map won't have any roads on it; it'll just have my car and my speed limit and the ETA. Then it'll do this again two more times. On the third restart, the map will reappear. (This usually happens about half a mile to one mile after it originally went blank.)
  
  Is the device just losing reception, or is there a defect?
  
  Answer:-I think it may be a corrupted map. It counts as a defect IMO.
• Question:-Garmin vs TomTom GPS?
  Which GPS should I get? Anyone have one of these GPS's?
  
  http://dealnews.com/Garmin-nuvi-1450-T-5…
  
  http://dealnews.com/Tom-Tom-XL-340-TM-4.…
  
  or have suggestion as to what other GPS there are that are good and cost about the same?
  
  Answer:-I cannot suggest to you which one but I can tell you .. from experience .. what is a good GPS.
  
  I have an iPhone that has a GPS application on it. About 3 months ago, my friends and I went to meet in Arkansas, northern part and it was a bit mountainous. There was one coming from Oklahoma. She was using a Garmin and I was coming from Kentucky and I was using the iPhone GPS application. On my way, my GPS worked perfectly, following every road it indicated, I reached my destination with no problems whatsoever. My lady friend coming from Oklahoma, encountered some dead spots along the way, the Garmin stopped working and she ended up in Little Rock, over a hundred miles off.
  
  I've used my iPhone GPS going to the west coast, up north in Ohio and down south Louisiana and it has YET to fail me. It takes me where I need to go.
  
  Hope this will help you out ..
• Question:-People with Garmin GPS..... tracking question! (Easy points!)?
  I have the garmin Nuvi 1450-
  I am using it in a location where the maps are very poor (and i have the most recent ones), so there are a lot of places i can't get to. I would like to have someone drive to a specific location with the GPS and then mark and save their routes. That way, i can go there, following the GPS-
  how do you mark a path to a location on the GPS? is this possible?
  THANKS!
  first one to answer well will receive 10 points!
  
  Answer:-Some GPS devices, like the garmin Map60,70 serries as well as newer oregon, and dakotas, have the ability to create "tracks" of where you have been. Those tracks can then be used to create a custom map that your Nuvi can read. I have made serval this way, It is a bit complicated however.
• Question:-how do you change the voice on a gps?
  i got a garmin nuvi 1450 and i dont like the default voice. how do i change that???
  
  Answer:-Go to Tools-->Settings-->Language. Once you're in the Language menu, click "Voice Language". Here it'll give you the option for a variety of languages. Be sure to select one that says "Speaks Street Names" under the language itself.
  
  Good luck :-)
• Question:-GPS Question????????????????
  Well we just bought a Garmin Nuvi 1450 LMT GPS from best buy. So when i tried to enter an address thats in Canada( i live in NY) it didnt come up. Yes I do have service in Canada and i changed the country to explore to Canada, but it still doesn't work. P.S: other addresses in Canada I can find.
  
  Answer:-It looks like it does not have all of canada.